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Toronto, ON - August 28, 2012: Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced the world premiere of Alligator Pie, opening this October as a new addition to the 2012 season. An original Soulpepper production, Alligator Pie brings the celebrated children's poems of "Canada's Father Goose" and Toronto's first Poet Laureate, Dennis Lee, to vibrant theatrical life. Soulpepper's creation ensemble of Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross, fill the stage with music, invention and Lee's classic poetry. Alligator Pie, and other familiar poems including Mulligan Stew, Bubblegum Delicious and Tricking, are told through movement and song with original music composed by the creation ensemble. Alligator Pie runs from October 26 to November 25 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Opening night is November 6.
"Watching this gifted crew dig into Alligator Pie is a treat. And sometimes, a revelation. They're finding things I'd forgotten in the poems and things I didn't even know were there. I can't wait to see what they make of the whole shebang," says Dennis Lee.
The fall season also includes Soulpepper's celebrated production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Samuel Beckett's Endgame. The classic Miller memory play features Ins Choi, Ari Cohen, Raquel Duffy, Sarah Koehn, Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster, Michael Hanrahan, Nancy Palk, Gregory Prest, Mike Ross, William Webster and Daniel Williston, with Joseph Ziegler reprising his 2010 Dora Award-winning performance as Willy Loman. Albert Schultz directs. The show begins in previews on September 5, opens on September 8 and runs until October 6.
Beckett's Endgame is directed by Daniel Brooks, and features Diego Matamoros, Eric Peterson, Maria Vacratsis and Joseph Ziegler. This is the first time in Soulpepper's history that an award-winning production is being re-imagined. Brooks directed Endgame in 1999, earning Soulpepper's first Dora Award for Best Production. Thirteen years on, Brooks returns with the original production team, and original cast member Matamoros, to re-examine a play counted amongst Beckett's masterpieces. Endgame begins in previews on October 26, opens on October 31 and runs until November 17.
Soulpepper Theatre Company is located at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane, in the Distillery Historic District. Tickets for Alligator Pie will be available as of September 4: Single tickets will be $23 (plus service charge); A Family Four Pack will be $94 (inclusive). Tickets for Death of a Salesman and Endgame range from $22 -$68 (plus service charge). Tickets are available by calling the Young Centre box office at 416.866.8666 or by visiting soulpepper.ca. $22 tickets are available for 21-30 year-olds at stageplay.ca. StagePlay is sponsored by TD Bank Group.
2012-08-28
Toronto: Soulpepper announces a new production for 2012 – “Alligator Pie”